| 单词 | pumpkin-eater |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspumpkin-eater pumpkin-eater n. ΚΠ 1833 Mother Goose's Melodies 67 Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her. 1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxxv. 234 Many English families reside in our vicinity,..close, penurious, grasping..and somewhat apt in bargaining to overreach even the wary pumpkin-eaters, their neighbors. 1962 Punch 31 Oct. 648/1 Jake is the pumpkin eater of the title [sc. of Penelope Mortimer's novel The Pumpkin Eater]; he tries to put his wife in a pumpkin shell to keep her very well, as the old rhyme says, and it is this that precipitates the crisis. 2004 S. Selvadurai in Story-Wallah 363 You're a cheater, cheater pumpkin-eater! < as lemmas |
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